Support system for analysis of student's motivation in group learning

Abstract

This paper proposes a support system for analysis of student's motivation in group learning. A teacher may select a learning form, where students talk mutually about exercises with a chat system. In order for students to learn it more effectively, the teacher should analyze the learning conditions (e.g. the learning goal, the exercise, the group member, and so on), evaluate the learning effect, and improve the learning conditions. However, it is a very time-consuming and difficult job. We consider that student's emotions toward the learning conditions have some relations to his/her motivation. The system visualizes students' emotions under various learning conditions. According to these visualizations, the teacher can analyze and improve the learning conditions.